everything will flow

7/4/96

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I'm in Paris to perform at the Cartier Foundation. The show is to be a totally"unplugged" show. No PA system, no lighting. The Foundation is insidea 10-story building made totally of glass. Inside the space we are performing in tonight there is a huge cage with thirty birds in it.

During performances, the musicians and I are used to using microphones and an amp to help us hear how we are playing. We won't have that luxury tonight.

Soundcheck ends up running longer than usual. I find out the piano will have to take the lead in the performance tonight.

During the performance I do a little bit of a Messian-inspired improvisation hoping to get the birds to participate in the show. The birds don't join in with us as much as I had hoped. Nevertheless, the performance goes really well. After the show, a reception is held on the top floor of the building overlooking the whole of Paris. I meet Catherine from the Centre Georges Pompidou there.

The next day we leave for London, where I will have six days off for rest. But when I get to London I find out that I have a day of shooting for TV and a half-day of interviews with BBC radio and Channel one already booked for me. I get even more exhausted.